Author: Dani Robertson
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 000858673X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Best New Books on Space 2024 – Forbes ‘Rarely is a non-fiction book about science this engaging’ – Forbes
All Through the Night: Why Our Lives Depend on Dark Skies
Author: Dani Robertson
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 000858673X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Best New Books on Space 2024 – Forbes ‘Rarely is a non-fiction book about science this engaging’ – Forbes
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 000858673X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Best New Books on Space 2024 – Forbes ‘Rarely is a non-fiction book about science this engaging’ – Forbes
The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper; Including the Series Edited, with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Dr. Samuel Johnson: and the Most Approves Translations. The Additional Lives by Alexander Chalm
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Languages : en
Pages : 626
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Wild Wasatch Front
Author: Natural History Museum of Utah
Publisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 1643263617
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 510
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A vibrant, informative guide to the unexpected nature in Salt Lake City and the surrounding area. Set out on a field trip with the experts from the Natural History Museum of Utah. In this book, you’ll learn about over 100 local species, both plants and animals. Be on the lookout for painted turtles in Ogden, spot pelicans soaring over Provo, and identify pavement mushrooms in Salt Lake City. Equal parts field guide and trip planner, Wild Wasatch Front reveals the unexpected nature thriving in parks, beside urban streams, along local trails… and maybe even in your own backyard.
Publisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 1643263617
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 510
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A vibrant, informative guide to the unexpected nature in Salt Lake City and the surrounding area. Set out on a field trip with the experts from the Natural History Museum of Utah. In this book, you’ll learn about over 100 local species, both plants and animals. Be on the lookout for painted turtles in Ogden, spot pelicans soaring over Provo, and identify pavement mushrooms in Salt Lake City. Equal parts field guide and trip planner, Wild Wasatch Front reveals the unexpected nature thriving in parks, beside urban streams, along local trails… and maybe even in your own backyard.
The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Mallet, Akenside, Gray, Lyttelton, Moore, Cawthorne, Churchill, Falconer, Cunningham, Grainger, Boyse
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 626
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Languages : en
Pages : 626
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Jones's Cabinet Edition of British Poets
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Pages : 500
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Pages : 500
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Dark Skies
Author: Daniel Deudney
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190903368
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 465
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Space is again in the headlines. E-billionaires Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are planning to colonize Mars. President Trump wants a "Space Force" to achieve "space dominance" with expensive high-tech weapons. The space and nuclear arms control regimes are threadbare and disintegrating. Would-be asteroid collision diverters, space solar energy collectors, asteroid miners, and space geo-engineers insistently promote their Earth-changing mega-projects. Given our many looming planetary catastrophes (from extreme climate change to runaway artificial superintelligence), looking beyond the earth for solutions might seem like a sound strategy for humanity. And indeed, bolstered by a global network of fervent space advocates-and seemingly rendered plausible, even inevitable, by oceans of science fiction and the wizardly of modern cinema-space beckons as a fully hopeful path for human survival and flourishing, a positive future in increasingly dark times. But despite even basic questions of feasibility, will these many space ventures really have desirable effects, as their advocates insist? In the first book to critically assess the major consequences of space activities from their origins in the 1940s to the present and beyond, Daniel Deudney argues in Dark Skies that the major result of the "Space Age" has been to increase the likelihood of global nuclear war, a fact conveniently obscured by the failure of recognize that nuclear-armed ballistic missiles are inherently space weapons. The most important practical finding of Space Age science, also rarely emphasized, is the discovery that we live on Oasis Earth, tiny and fragile, and teeming with astounding life, but surrounded by an utterly desolate and inhospitable wilderness stretching at least many trillions of miles in all directions. As he stresses, our focus must be on Earth and nowhere else. Looking to the future, Deudney provides compelling reasons why space colonization will produce new threats to human survival and not alleviate the existing ones. That is why, he argues, we should fully relinquish the quest. Mind-bending and profound, Dark Skies challenges virtually all received wisdom about the final frontier.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190903368
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
Space is again in the headlines. E-billionaires Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are planning to colonize Mars. President Trump wants a "Space Force" to achieve "space dominance" with expensive high-tech weapons. The space and nuclear arms control regimes are threadbare and disintegrating. Would-be asteroid collision diverters, space solar energy collectors, asteroid miners, and space geo-engineers insistently promote their Earth-changing mega-projects. Given our many looming planetary catastrophes (from extreme climate change to runaway artificial superintelligence), looking beyond the earth for solutions might seem like a sound strategy for humanity. And indeed, bolstered by a global network of fervent space advocates-and seemingly rendered plausible, even inevitable, by oceans of science fiction and the wizardly of modern cinema-space beckons as a fully hopeful path for human survival and flourishing, a positive future in increasingly dark times. But despite even basic questions of feasibility, will these many space ventures really have desirable effects, as their advocates insist? In the first book to critically assess the major consequences of space activities from their origins in the 1940s to the present and beyond, Daniel Deudney argues in Dark Skies that the major result of the "Space Age" has been to increase the likelihood of global nuclear war, a fact conveniently obscured by the failure of recognize that nuclear-armed ballistic missiles are inherently space weapons. The most important practical finding of Space Age science, also rarely emphasized, is the discovery that we live on Oasis Earth, tiny and fragile, and teeming with astounding life, but surrounded by an utterly desolate and inhospitable wilderness stretching at least many trillions of miles in all directions. As he stresses, our focus must be on Earth and nowhere else. Looking to the future, Deudney provides compelling reasons why space colonization will produce new threats to human survival and not alleviate the existing ones. That is why, he argues, we should fully relinquish the quest. Mind-bending and profound, Dark Skies challenges virtually all received wisdom about the final frontier.
The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Mallet, Akenside, Gray, Lyttelton, Moore, Cawthorne, Churchill, Falconer, Cunningham, Grainer, Boyse
Author: Alexander Chalmers
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 624
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Pages : 624
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Every Other Sunday
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Category : Sunday schools
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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Category : Sunday schools
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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The Works of the English Poets from Chaucer to Cowper
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Pages : 670
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The Poetical Works of John Milton ...
Author: John Milton
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Pages : 502
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Pages : 502
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